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My Subtropical Bird Garden

10,000 Birds

But I would never have imagined how important it would be to my emotional well-being to have a bird-friendly garden during lockdown. Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. And it bears for more than half the year!

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

10,000 Birds

And sun bears. On the other hand, Phoebe Snetsinger’s memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time , becomes tedious because of her lack of emotional disclosure. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa. But, there are other things out there in the jungle, things like leeches. And mosquitos.

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